Child Who Went Missing In 1979

Opening arguments began on Wednesday in the retrial of a man accused of the 1979 abduction and murder of a six-year-old New York boy, a case that still haunts millions of American parents.

He was America's missing child, the little boy who went off to school alone and vanished. A renewed investigation into the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City recalled the years when printed images of missing children appeared on milk cartons.

Opening arguments began on Wednesday in the retrial of a man accused of the 1979 abduction and murder of a six-year-old New York boy, a case that still haunts millions of American parents.

He was America's missing child, the little boy who went off to school alone and vanished. A renewed investigation into the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz in New York City recalled the years when printed images of missing children appeared on milk cartons.